Can we Sense Mental Health using Chemistry?

Meet the Triathlete and Researcher Revolutionizing the Way We Understand Feelings, and even our Brains

Okezue Bell
6 min readDec 5, 2022

The mental health crisis is rapidly increasing, with nearly 1 in 5 US adults suffering from a serious mental illness in 2020. Looking deeper, we find that emotional instability and altered neurological behaviors are most common among adults of ages 18–25, though relatively common across all ages, races, and genders. This is largely because mental health has become increasingly…

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Okezue Bell

Social technologist with a passion for journalism and community outreach.